Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Today, I finished up the new attraction in town. It’s a cemetery for previous Animal Crossing games (the main games, not including spin-offs or Japan-only games). Next to a gravestone for each game is a sign with the game’s box art, and an item that represents something from each game.

For the GameCube game, I chose a ball as the representative item. That game had balls that could be kicked all around town, and the ball seemed like an obvious choice to place here. For Wild World, I placed a bottled ship to represent the note in a bottle. Even though they returned in New Horizons as message bottles, they are not used the same way. In Wild World, you could send notes to random players and vice versa. By the way, regular message bottles in New Horizons can’t be placed back down once you pick them up. Otherwise I would have used them instead.

For City Folk, I made a pattern of the shopping card that allowed you to make large purchases at GracieGrace without carrying cash around with you. The funds came directly out of your bank account, just like a debit card. For New Leaf, I used the pocket modern camper to represent the RVs that would appear after the Welcome Amiibo update arrived.

If any of you have suggestions for a better (single-space sized) item to represent any of those games, feel free to comment below! By the way, I’ve already updated my dream, so you can see this area for yourself by dreaming of Forest.

I found Apple resting between two apple trees. It just seemed so cute that I had to include it in the entry today. 😛

Today is Tybalt’s birthday, and I made sure to attend his birthday party. Agent S was also there to help him celebrate. For a birthday present, I gave Tybalt the telescope that had been on Spectacle Rock. Happy birthday, tiger!

By the way, I was recently informed that Tybalt’s name is Jeff in the French version of the game. Tybalt was already growing on me, but this fact makes me like him even more. 😛

C.J. was in town, and he had a freestyle challenge for me today. That just meant I had to catch any five fish in a row without letting any get away. That didn’t take me long, and I sold my catches back to him for about 19,000 bells. I then went home to get some fish out of storage. I took them all over to C.J., and that earned me another 238k.

Later on, I found Wisp up on the eastern cliffs. I collected his spirits for him, and it didn’t take me long: just two and a half minutes! He rewarded me with some rose flooring. I also earned 1,000 Nook Miles because that was the 20th time I helped him out!

It seems like finding Pascal has been a lot of work lately. So I nearly ended my game without even trying to find him tonight. But I decided to give it a quick try, and I’m glad I did. I found a scallop (and Pascal) on my very first dive! He gave me a pearl in exchange for the scallop.

Just a few notices. There will not be a Friday Night Forest this week, and probably not next week either. But I plan on opening a week from Sunday (on the 30th) for the final fireworks festival of the year.

Lopez’s birthday is coming up tomorrow. And within the next day or two, I plan to post another dreaming video. But this won’t be an “island hopping” video this time. Instead, it will focus just on one amazing dream town.

Have a great day, and Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

Tia asked about moving out of town yesterday, but I tied her trunk to town hall. 😉 She’s not going anywhere! 😛

Crazy Redd was in town, so I boarded his ship to see what art he had. The serene painting looked real, but I already have that one in the museum. I believe the other three works of art were fake, but I took a chance on a mystic statue.

I shot down a balloon present that contained 30,000 bells! Wow!

I spent some crafting to replenish my supply of pitfall seeds, and I now have 55 of them. The bad news is that I can’t craft many more. Even though I still have over 2,000 tree branches in storage, I only have about 20 clumps of weeds remaining. So the next time I do this, I’ll have to visit some mystery islands to stock up on weeds first.

Today, Redd sent me the mystic statue in the mail. Blathers confirmed what I suspected: it’s a fake. I just put it in storage for now.

Flick was in town, so I grabbed a bunch of bugs out of storage for him. He gave me 145k for them all.

I later sold him an additional 70k worth of bugs that I caught today.

I did some diving in the ocean, filling up my pockets twice and then finally finding a scallop. Pascal popped up and told me he’s not made of DNA, he’s made of OTTE and R. Pascal isn’t always as deep as he thinks he is.

He gave me a pearl in exchange for the scallop.

After I spent way too much time grinding for Nook Miles+ goals, I decided to work on the next new attraction in Forest. I did some crafting, I made some patterns, I got some items out of storage, and I ordered something. But I also removed Spectacle Rock, because this is where the new addition is going.

Even though I liked having the Zelda reference in town, it admittedly was a bit plain. A “rock” formation is never going to be the most exciting thing to have in a town. 😛 And few, if any, people would even know what it was if they hadn’t seen me explain it in the blog or a video. But still, Spectacle Rock will live on in my first island tour video.

The new attraction is almost finished already. I’ll need to move a couple of patterns around tomorrow once Able Sisters is open, and it’ll just take me a couple minutes to put the finishing touches on it. So I plan on revealing it in the blog tomorrow. Tybalt’s birthday is also tomorrow, so I hope to see you then!

Have a great day! Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

I received a letter from the Happy Home Academy today, informing me that my house scored 75,882 points. For topping 70,000 points, they sent me a bronze HHA trophy. I put it in my exercise room for now.

The third fireworks festival was underway at the plaza, and Isabelle gave me a star bopper. This is probably my favorite of the boppers. Several villagers were hanging out there, and Keaton used the boom of the fireworks as cover to tell me that he’s actually shy. 😛

I scoured the beach and found nine star fragments and one large star fragment. My fragment collection is growing nicely, but I really wish Celeste showed up more often to give me recipes!

Rizzo was standing next to the daily glowing spot. So when I dug up the bells, I buried a pitfall seed in that spot. Rizzo walked away, but it didn’t take long until Lopez walked into it instead.

I went diving in the ocean just long enough to fill up my pockets. I didn’t encounter a scallop, so I just called off the search for the day. It starts to feel like I’m wasting my time if it takes longer than ten minutes. Pascal’s rewards aren’t usually that great, and it’s not like he’s a rare visitor. I’ll find him another time.

After dumping most of my catches in the drop box at Nook’s Cranny, I re-filled my pockets by spending some bells at Redd’s raffle. I got a few handheld fireworks that I’ll save for another day.

As for the big fireworks show going on, I sat on a bench for a while to enjoy the sights and sounds.

I didn’t open my gate tonight, but I plan to do it at least once more on a fireworks night. I may wait until the 30th (two weeks from today), but I’m not sure yet.

Regardless, I did post a new video today, Wi-Fi Moments #10. I hope you enjoy it!

See you next time!